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Archive | November, 2012

A lesson in making pizzas

25 November, 2012 by Stonehead 3 Comments

The Big Lad brought a pizza home from school last Monday. He’d made it in Home Economics, but wasn’t happy with it as the students weren’t allowed to make “proper pizza” due to time, budget and health and safety constraints. The school pizza wasn’t made with leavened dough, the dough wasn’t worked long enough, the […]

Food

Cheese, cooking, Dough, Food, Home Economics, Olive oil, onion pizza, pizza, tomato

Final batch of pigs leave the croft

12 November, 2012 by Stonehead 2 Comments

We took our last two Berkshire pigs to the abattoir today, a job made more complicated by the death of one of the porkers, a last-minute change of abattoir and a last-minute change of butcher. Still, we got everything organised in the end and were up early to load the pigs today.

Berkshire pigs, Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

Abattoir, Agriculture and Forestry, Berkshire pigs, Crofting, Livestock, Pigs, porkers, postaweek2012, Smallholding

Death of a pig

3 November, 2012 by Stonehead 5 Comments

I came home from a rugby coaching course at 3pm today. I went out for a quick check of the animals, all the pigs and all the poultry looked okay, so I went inside. At 5.30pm, I went out to feed the pigs and found one of the finished gilts—due to go to slaughter in […]

Pigs

Christmas, Crofting, death, Livestock, Pigs, postaweek2012, Smallholding, vet, veterinary